|  | 7.5 | Monitoring and Managing an IPX Network
| 7.5.8 | Using the user IPX ping command

To check host reachability and network connectivity, use the user-level ping command in EXEC command mode. As opposed to the privileged ping command, the user-level ping command provides a basic ping facility for users who do not have system privileges. This command is equivalent to a simplified form of the privileged ping command. It sends five 100-byte IPX Cisco echoes. The full syntax of the command is ping [ipx] {{host | address} The information in the table is a description of the parameters used in the syntax. The user-level ping command works only on Cisco routers running IOS Release 8.2 or later. Novell IPX devices do not respond to this command. You cannot ping a router from itself. If the system cannot map an address for a host name, it returns an %Unrecognized host or address error message. This example shows input to and output from the user-level ping command.